Luca has arrived online, and we re already applying a healthy schmeer of zinc to our noses. It s kind of hard not to think of summer vacation when watching the latest round of footage for director Enrico Casarosa s Italian Riviera-set adventure about two young sea monsters leaving the comfort of the ocean to explore the endless joys of the surface world (like Vespas and gelato!).
Newfound friends, the skittish Luca (
Room s Jacob Tremblay), and the more carefree Alberto (
Shazam! s Jack Dylan Grazer) may look like a pair of normal boys when they re out of the water, but if even a drop of water hits their skin, they start sprouting fins and scales. It s a rather monstrous secret they have to keep from the residents of the seaside town of Portorosso. While on dry land, the amphibious duo befriend a young girl named Giulia Marcovaldo (Emma Berman).